Darryl K. Taft

Microsoft Corp.s recent patent application for distributed computing around its .Net architecture has stirred concern in the industry about Microsofts intentions. The Redmond, Wash., companys refusal to discuss the patent has led observers to speculate that the move is intended to help ward off the threat of several open-source initiatives—specifically Mono, a project to create […]

The National Coffee Association Inc. has decided to forgo Java and put XML in its cup. While Java chants the mantra of write once, run anywhere, XML is proving more and more to be the language of e-commerce and of integrating disparate systems. As a result, the NCA has adopted XML as its lingua franca. […]

SAN FRANCISCO—Web services will play a key role in Yukon, the next version of Microsoft Corp.s SQL Server database, a company executive said. Giving a preview of the upcoming technology at the VSLive show here, David Campbell, product unit manager of the SQL Server Engine at Microsoft, said in a keynote presentation Thursday, “SQL Server […]

The Web Services Reliability (WS-Reliability) specification will be going to the Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards, or OASIS, standards body in a new technical committee known as the Web Services Reliable Messaging Technical Committee. In a memo sent to OASIS members Thursday, the organization called for interested members to participate in the […]

Having been rebuffed in U.S. courts, the Computer & Communications Industry Association (CCIA) has taken its case to Europe. CCIA filed a complaint with the European Commission claiming that Microsoft has violated European Union competitive laws with its Windows XP operating system. The European Commission enforces EU antitrust laws. In a 260 page complaint, the […]

SAN FRANCISCO—Microsoft Corp. partners will be showing their support for the software giants development tools platform at the VSLive developer conference here this week. Infragistics Inc., of East Windsor, N.J., a Microsoft partner and maker of reusable presentation layer components for building Microsoft .Net, Common Object Model (COM) and Java applications, announced a new version […]

SAN FRANCISCO—Microsoft Corp. celebrated the first anniversary of its Visual Studio .Net application development environment and .Net Framework with hints of things to come in the next major version of the tool as well as an update on the momentum the existing tool has generated. Eric Rudder, Microsofts senior vice president of developer and platform […]

Some enterprise customers may claim Microsoft Corp. has abandoned its original .Net strategy, but dont count the Annie E. Casey Foundation among them. The foundation is using Microsofts Visual Studio .Net development platform to rewrite a key application related to its grant-making process. The Redmond, Wash., software developer is scheduled to highlight the foundation at […]

A year after introducing Visual Studio .Net, Microsoft Corp. is expected to offer showgoers sneak peeks of the next two versions of its integrated tool suite at the VSLive developers conference in San Francisco this week. The company will highlight the momentum behind its flagship development tool, along with the .Net Framework and the overall […]

Chief Technology Officer Jeremy Allaire is leaving Macromedia Inc. Writing on his Weblog this week, Allaire said he is calling it quits after having spent eight years at the company that bore his name, Allaire Corp., and Macromedia, which acquired Allaire two years ago. “After eight years with Allaire and Macromedia, Ive decided to move […]